ZeroTech TRACE ADV 3-18×44 FFP Shoot2Hunt

[Q_Sertorius]

I wonder if any ZP5s were in the mix ...

There was one there and it also was great in low light. That thing was basically cheating.

 

[TradLife406]

Shot about an entire day at the university with one of these bad boys. Compared to the Mavens it's a huge jump in glass clarity.
The reticle is pretty epic too!

 

[Speaks]

Well, I will say that I didn’t get the trigger time that some other folks got with them at S2H, but I did get to see and handle them. The low light performance was clearly superior to a SWFA 6x. But, moving forward, I am gravitating more towards “one main rifle.” So, I don’t foresee an immediate justification for having one of these on each of my rifles.

Yea thats fair, honestly between my 223 and my 6 creed I have little need to shoot much else.

 

[Ajsomp]

I wonder if any ZP5s were in the mix ...

@ekupp had one on his rifle.

 

[JK Munitions]

Shot about an entire day at the university with one of these bad boys. Compared to the Mavens it's a huge jump in glass clarity.
The reticle is pretty epic too!

I have a few Mavens, so I'm looking forward to waiting 6+ months for the ZT. Refresh, refresh, refresh.

 

[BLJ]

Particularly after I watched someone hurl a rifle with the S2H scope mounted on it so hard that it snapped the wooden stock in half.

Must have been a pretty good jolt.
Where did it break? What stock and rifle?

 

[5MilesBack]

Now that the Maven is $1400 and the SWFA 3-9 is available, I would not even consider the Maven.

To my eyes, SWFA glass is crap, even the HD. I tried to like it, and just couldn't get past it.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Must have been a pretty good jolt.
Where did it break? What stock and rifle?

It broke at the handgrip. It was a prototype wooden Rokstok with no reinforcing dowel. I am confident Mike will fix it with a reinforcing dowel and some proper glue. I don’t know whether a production wooden Rokstok would have broken.

The rifle was one of the S2H Tikkas. So, properly torqued and etc.

 

[Nine Banger]

To my eyes, SWFA glass is crap, even the HD. I tried to like it, and just couldn't get past it.

We hunt in the dark here (coastal plain, SE USA).

The 3-9x is pretty good. The 6x and the 10x get fuzzy fast.

One time I walked over to my neighbors at twilight. He has a long fence with huge posts with flat tops. He also has a deer herd about 47 strong that feeds together. I went back and forth between the 6x and a 3-9x set on the flat tops of the posts and went home and moved some stuff around.

 

[Samson7x]

To my eyes, SWFA glass is crap, even the HD. I tried to like it, and just couldn't get past it.

This. I've owned a few and they are really not impressive and certainly not all that hard to surpass.

 

[Nine Banger]

I don’t know whether a production wooden Rokstok would have broken.

Let's test it.

You first tho.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

To my eyes, SWFA glass is crap, even the HD. I tried to like it, and just couldn't get past it.

I can’t answer for your eyes, but I have to wonder what you are trying to use it for such that it won’t work as a sighting device during hunting hours.